Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system
This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information structure mapping during the medieval period, with th...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/942 |